{"id":29547,"date":"2026-03-11T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/29547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:52:08","slug":"six-killed-in-switzerland-bus-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/29547\/","title":{"rendered":"Six killed in Switzerland bus fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed and three others taken to hospital with severe injuries after a bus caught fire in a town west of the Swiss capital, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Frederic Papaux, of the Fribourg region, said an unspecified \u201cvoluntary act\u201d could be the cause of the inferno on Tuesday evening in the town of Kerzers, about 15 miles west of Bern, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The regional transport bus is operated by PostBus, which is affiliated with the national postal service.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773186904003_1.jpg--.jpg\" width=\"640\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Images from the scene on Swiss media showed flames tearing through the bus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter rushing to the scene, rescue teams noted that the vehicle was totally engulfed in flames,\u201d the regional government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance and helicopter teams ferried three injured people with severe injuries to hospital, while two others were treated on site, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Papaux said an investigation was under way.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least six people have been killed and three others taken to hospital with severe injuries after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,17867,2036,5710,17858,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-29547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-bus-fire","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-kerzers","13":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116208752667696806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}